Lob’s Pound

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A prison, the stocks, or any other place of confinement. (Welsh, llob, a dolt). The Irish call it Pook’s or Pouk’s fold, and Puck is calledbyShakespeare “the lob of spirits,” and byMilton, “the lubber fiend.” Our wordlobby is where people are confined till admission is granted them into the audience chamber; it is also applied to that enclosed space near farmyards where cattle are confined.